Die, My Love There comes a tale from an antique land. A King ruled over a thin Isthmus, above and below which were two unfathomably…
Troubled souls trapped: the parameters of a typical Claire Denis narrative are rarely complex. Beau Travail’s French Foreign Legion soldiers were confined to their base…
An 11-minute standing ovation at Cannes can’t be called a total disaster. Nevertheless, Alpha arrived at the 2025 London Film Festival trailing a, shall we…
François Ozon is a peculiar filmmaker. The French director’s output is as prolific (25 films in nearly 30 years) as it is full of odd…
Simon Stone’s mystery/thriller The Woman in Cabin 10 follows an intriguing, Agatha-adjacent premise: the determined and persistent Laura “Lo” Blacklock (Keira Knightley), a successful investigative…
In Mare’s Nest, director Ben Rivers takes us through a world moving beyond language. Inspired, in part, by a one-act play by Don DeLillo, Mare’s…
Hamnet A single work of art may, or may not, be able to change the world, but it can surely change a mind. To those…
Looking with a cynical eye, one might accuse Ildikó Eyendi — and not just in Silent Friend — of banality. The film’s three stories, taken…
An old army colleague of mine, Colonel Cosgrove, wept today. He wept at a world so crude and bleak. “Could it be,” his red eyes…
If you weren’t around to experience it in real time, it will be hard to grasp how seismic the 2002 FIFA World Cup feud between…
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: If you die in your dream, you die for real. Scott Derrickson’s burgeoning Black Phone series is…
Ballad of a Small Player To know the value of something, you can’t just win it — you have to earn it. That’s a lesson…
To know the value of something, you can’t just win it — you have to earn it. That’s a lesson that Edward Berger, cinema’s new…
Elaborate, ephemeral, and exceedingly difficult to pull off, the souffle takes a serious amount of skill, experience, and precision to make, but typically takes just…
A moment of peculiar poignancy opens Erige Sehiri’s sensitive, if somewhat unremarkable, Promised Sky. A young girl is being bathed by three women as she…
There’s comfort on familiar terrain. The coming-of-age story has been a mainstay in storytelling across all media for as long as stories have been told;…
The only complaint this writer has with Mr. Scorsese, a “film portrait” by Rebecca Miller, is that it is only five hours long. The child…
Good News opens with members of the Japanese militant communist group Red Army Faction — armed with pistols, katanas, and a bomb — hijacking Japan…
Keith Jarrett’s Köln Concert is a sort of un-Sex Pistols at the Lesser Free Trade Hall: everyone at the Sex Pistols concert in 1976 started…
After a night on the town, her two guy friends, Mitch (Colin Burgess) and Noah (Kevin Grossman), try to take Rayna’s (Blu Hunt) keys so…